He has worked with many musicians including David Darling,[1] George Benson, Benjamin Verdery,[2] and the Paul Winter Consort.
Marshall includes the drumming traditions of the Middle East, North and South India, Egypt, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Central Asia in his repertoire.
Performing on frame drums, tabla, doumbek, djembe, congas, riq, pandeiro, conventional Western percussion, and all manner of hand-held percussion, John Marshall's music has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Echoes, Hearts of Space and the BBC.
He has performed and recorded with such artists as the Paul Winter Consort, Michael Brecker, Glen Velez, Rhonda Larson, Danny Gottlieb, Harvie S, Robert Gass, Steve Gorn, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Paco Peña, David Darling, Eugene Friesen, Benjamin Verdery, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, George Benson and Marc Anthony.
Currently Marshall performs with the experimental improvisational trio, Bridges and Poems, and is studying North Indian tabla with Subhankar Banerjee.